As a cold, dark and dreary November rolled to a close Corporate trainee Tom Woodhead and Projects & Construction gap year student Sairish Tahir sat burning the midnight oil, cramming all things current affairs and practising their verbal sparring so as not to bring eternal shame to the Pinsent Masons name at the annual Michelsberg Debating…

On 1 December 2011 Pinsent Masons and five other City law firms held the first joint-firm LGBT graduate recruitment event. Coinciding with World AIDS day, DiversCity consisted of an afternoon of seminars and networking opportunities for LGBT students interested in pursuing a career as a commercial lawyer. The event, which was advertised to students across the UK,…

‘An Awkward Turtle to a Proper Genuine Grown-Up’ To begin with, I have to confess that I probably won’t be the best person to produce entertaining blog posts. I happen to be gifted with the awkward seriousness and naivety so I think I can let my fellow gap year blogger to fulfil that role with…

I think that every trainee has an idea of what they think their training contract is going to be like and they are a bit uneasy at the thought. We all hear rumours of scary partners and being a department photocopier, but I am a first-seat trainee in the Tax department in Birmingham and I…

Students of Britain: do you aspire to a career in law? Would you like the opportunity to quiz law firm employees to get the low-down on what their firms are like? Are your stocks of stationary dangerously low? If the answers to these questions are “yes” then you probably either have some experience of law…

I am now two months into my first seat in Property Litigation in our Birmingham office. I have already been involved in a wide variety of different work and I am really enjoying the responsibility of working on my own files and putting some of my legal training to good use! Property Litigation in Birmingham…

This blog is “meant to” give those interested a taster into what it is like working for Pinsent Masons as a gap year student, however I think I will be taking an unorthodox approach. I joined the firm at the start of September and to be honest I haven’t looked back, hundreds of miles away…

I’m Amy Hextell and I’m currently in my first seat in the Birmingham Corporate team. I went to the University of Birmingham and I love the city! All work and no play? Lawyers work hard. They put in long hours, racing to meet deadlines and operating to the client’s timetable which can sometimes mean you’re…

So, after three years of university and two years of law school, here we are! Our first week at Pinsent Masons… and we know nothing! Perhaps that’s a little misleading. Law school did in fact teach us a lot of legal skills and commercial awareness. However, Law school did not teach us how to use the complicated printer,…

The first few months….. Having now spent a month working for the firm, the good news is that the training contract so far has not been as daunting as expected. Our first day with the firm was spent in London on a firm-wide trainee induction. The days were spent in the lecture theatre but we…